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History · Jeffersonville

Jeffersonville’s post office opened in 1831, and 30% of its homes were built before 1940

3 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1927 on, and the census since 1930.

1831first post office
3on the National Register
30%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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From Jeffersonville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Jeffersonville began

When was Jeffersonville founded?

1831

The Jeffersonville post office opened in 1831, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 305 in 19302020 census: 750195 years
Founding year: the first Jeffersonville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Jeffersonville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1831: 195 years of Jeffersonville.
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Start Jeffersonville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jeffersonville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewCovered railroad bridge. Jeffersonville…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Jeffersonville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Jeffersonville.

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The village was originally called "Cambridge Center". The name was changed to "Jeffersonville" in 1827 to honor Thomas Jefferson. The village was incorporated in 1897.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Jeffersonville, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s1 item
Covered railroad bridge. Jeffersonville, Vermont, by Arthur Rothstein, United States Office of War Information, Sept. 1…1937Covered railroad bridge. Jeffersonville, Vermont, by …
1940s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today5 recent
2ndCongregationalChurch JeffersonvilleVT20162ndCongregationalChurch JeffersonvilleVTJeffersonville VT Historic District2011Jeffersonville VT Historic DistrictFord Expedition EL2008Ford Expedition EL'00-'01 Nissan Xterra2008'00-'01 Nissan XterraJeffersonville, Cambridge, VT 05464, USA2006Jeffersonville, Cambridge, VT 05464, USA
On the map

Jeffersonville on the map, 1927 to 1948

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jeffersonville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Jeffersonville on the 1927 USGS mapJeffersonville on the 1948 USGS map1927Mount Mansfield sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Jeffersonville.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Covered railroad bridge. Jeffersonville, Vermont, by Arthur Rothstein, United States Office of War Information, Sept. 1…
Retake this viewCovered railroad bridge. Jeffersonville, Vermont, by Arthur Rothstein, United States Office of War Information, Sept. 1…, 1937

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Jeffersonville’s page.

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On the National Register

3 listings protect 81 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
3
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
81
each building in a district counts

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Jeffersonville, census by census

020040060080019401960198020002020750

Grew from 305 people in 1930 to 750 in 2020.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Jeffersonville’s Wikipedia page.

Questions about Jeffersonville’s history

What year was Jeffersonville founded?

The Jeffersonville post office opened in 1831, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.